Course
Web Site: www.cs.siu.edu/~dche/courses/CS438
(MWF
3:00 – 3:50 p.m. Lindegren Lab)
[Reserved area for
important announcement]
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Syllabus
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Assignments (homework
and projects)
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Exams
(Review Sheets & Solutions)
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Briefs of the Course &
the Subjects
o Bioinformatics as an
emerging area is expecting to rationalize modern drug design processes. This
course may bridge the gap between your gained knowledge in CS and the broad and
highly profitable pharmaceutical industry. It may simply opens yet another
bright window for your future career.
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The course includes a primer of molecular biology (so no prerequisite
on biology is needed). The course addresses important and practical computing
problems in bioinformatics, and develops algorithmic solutions to these
problems.
o You may not realize that
Bioinformatics straddles over two of the three most promising areas, IT,
medicine, and energy, that Bill Gates predicated for the
coming decade at a town
hall meeting.